Oh my god! It's Baby's first Mental Ray image! AWW!

So I just started using mental ray last night and... wow... I mean WOW! not only is it way easier then I thought it would be it really does make your images look way freaking smexy! The hardest thing for me to do last night was to actually turn it on in Maya. It's a plug-in you have to set on in the plug in manager called "Mayatomr" or something like that.

So, above are the images I made. the first is just the first image i made just to get the mental ray ambient occlusion shader to work. the second is that shader applied to the hallway i posted earlier. and the third is a composit of the one over the other adding much more detail in cracks and such. I'm really jazzed! i can wait to try some sub surface scattering!